Neighbors in the province of Santiago de Cuba would have acted together to arrest an alleged drug trafficker who operated in the main city, this after a long chase through the streets of the town.
The incident was reported by independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who shared a video of Directorate of Intelligence (DTI) officers taking the subject away in handcuffs, while several residents of the area watch curiously from a distance.
According to the communicator, the first versions that reached him said that the subject had tried to steal a cell phone, while others assured that it was someone who had tried to steal a purse, however, the truth is that it was a much more serious crime. serious.
“I have received two images where the town captured a man, who first said he snatched a phone and then that it was a wallet, something that is not true,” the publication reads.
The complaint claims that these versions would have been shared so that the people would participate in the persecution of the criminal, which ended up working.
“These first versions were thrown into the town, so that the same people could capture him, since he was fleeing in some streets in the center of the City of Santiago de Cuba,” he added.
The publication claims that the subject tried to escape by jumping between the roofs, but ended up being detained by the neighbors after he went down to the streets again.
“The man arrived at Santa Rosa Street and told a man to help him, that the Police were coming after him, but the man did not want to get involved in that. “He went into a room and closed the gate and from there he jumped over the roofs and went out onto Princesa Street and that’s where the people caught him,” a source told the journalist.
The communicator points out that the first versions would have been shared by the Castro authorities themselves, so that the people would join the persecution.
“Those who are handcuffing the man are not people from the town, but DTI and Police officers, who were falling behind him to capture him. Therefore, the first versions of snatchers and pickpockets, so that the people would unite and capture him,” the reporter wrote.
According to the source, people gathered as the DTI members escorted the subject, this to beat him due to his alleged actions as a pickpocket.
“The police showed the bale of drugs because the people wanted to continue beating the man,” added the witness.
After this, the DTI officers remained inside the house until a patrol of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) arrived to take the criminal away.
